The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-04-09
washington News and Gossip.
From our Special Correspondent.

From our Special Correspondent
WAsHINGToN. d. c., April a, 'S7.
MIR. EDITOR The Postmaster at Washington,
who has held Office ever since the administration
of President Arthur, and drawn the lucrative
salary of s4,OOoa year, is getting very uneasy
lest in the early days of the spring he will lCse
his much sought after position. The rtmor is
that the President has Instructed the Postmaster
General to inform him of all the Presidential
postmasters holding over from the last admin
stration, with the view of calling for the resigna-
tions of the some $50 Republicans that their
places may be filed by good and patient Demo-
cratS. There are over 2,400 of these Offices with
in the gift of the President and the fact that all
except 800 are filed by sturdy Democrats makes
1t look as II President Cleveland is pretty good
Democrat, no matter what has been charged to
the contrary
| The Interstate Commerce Commissioners are
all here and have orgnized by electing Judge
Cooley, chairman. The first thing they did after
assembling in our snow enveloped city, after
paying their respects to the Chief Executive,
was to call upon the Secretary of the Interior
and be sworn into Office. The Comptroller of
the Treasury has ruled that no officer Of the
Government can draw pay for the Office to which
he is appointed until he takes the prescribed
States, and so the Commissioners draw pay for
from last Thursday, and not from the time OF
their appointment. Many people are asking
whether the Commissioners will have to pay
their railroad fare out Of their salaries, will
have it paid of the appropriation for the running
! expenses of the Commission. The question is an
important one rs the Commissioners will have
much travelling to do, and the railway fare would
be pretty big item to take from the $3.50 Il
year salary The best opinion seems to be that
it will be paid out of the appropriation for the
expenses tf th Office.
Commissioner of Agriculture, Colman, has
just returned from Louisiana, and is delighted
with his reception there and with the prospects
of an increase in the yield of sugar. He says
that he never knew what Southern hospitality
was until his trip south. lie was dined ant
w!ncd from the time he entered the buundare:
OF the Sunny South until he lslt them on H.:
return home. He says that II he is rs successful
as he expects to be in the experiments conducted
under his direction, the sugar trade OF the coun
try will be revoutiOnized. and there will be 1
saving OF 40 per cent, by tile new d!fIusion pro
cess When that day COMES We may expect I,
have not more than ten per cent OF adulteratiOI
in our sugar, and there will be no necessity o
, lighting for the annexation OF Cuba.
There has been very heavy discharge in th
Government Printing Office this week necesitatc,
partly by the reduction in work since the adjourn
ment OF Congress aud partly TO make room 70
3 appointments. The discharges wOuld have becI
: made earlier but tor the fact that the employee
have been paid monthly owing to peculiar word
ing of the law, which forbids the Government
Printer drawing money from the Treasury oftcnc
than once "a month for the pay Of the printers
e and as Congress did not adjourn until the 4th O
/ March, the force had to be kept until the end c
the month"; when the money could be drawn t
; pay them. The discharged men made abou
Z three weeks on Uncle Sam in that way. Here
after, under AN arrangement between The Govern
: ment Printer and Comptroller Of the Treas
q ury the printers will be paid every tw
. weeks.
One day this week five ducks were found lyin
dead at the base of the Washington Monumeu
One of thelh was found cut nearly iI two as
:. ceaved by Il razor. 1t is supposed that til
$ early morning being cloudy the ducks lost thc
course and biindly dashed against the mont
= ment with such force rs to be killed, and the on
found cut IN two struck the platinum point o
IS the monument which cut IL in twain. I'll
Y pathological branch OF the Agricultural Depar
g ment has on record numerous Instances of DirC
=, killed by dashing against lighthouses, and h,
Q in its museum many rare species of birds kile
e in that way and forwarded by the lighthOuS
& keepers to the Department, but the adoyo is I'll
% first known instance of birds or fowls ben
> killed By daShlng against the monument. H.